Margaret startled her one day, by saying: "Madaline, now that you are a great lady, and have such influential friends, do you not think you could do something for your father ?" "Something for my father ?" repeated the girl, with a shudder.

"What can I do for him ?" A new idea suddenly occurred to Mrs.Dornham.She looked into Lady Arleigh's pale, beautiful face.
"Madaline," she said, earnestly, "tell me the whole truth--is your father's misfortune any drawback to you?
Tell me the truth; I have a reason for asking you." But Lady Arleigh would not pain her mother--her quiet, simple heart had ached bitterly enough.

She would not add one pang.
"Tell me, dear," continued Margaret, earnestly; "you do not know how important it is for me to understand." "My dear mother," said Lady Arleigh, gently clasping her arms round her mother's neck; "do not let that idea make you uneasy.

All minor lights cease to shine, you know, in the presence of greater ones.

The world bows down to Lord Arleigh; very few, I think, know what his wife's name was.